Desktop Virtualisation Contracts in England

Desktop Virtualization
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Desktop Virtualisation skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Desktop Virtualisation over the 6 months leading up to 24 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 538 632 769
Rank change year-on-year +94 +137 -117
Contract jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation 12 4 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.009% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% 0.009% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £213 £520 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £243 £580 £450
Median % change year-on-year -58.19% +28.89% +12.15%
75th Percentile £479 £640 £538
90th Percentile £600 - £628
UK median daily rate £243 £465 £463
% change year-on-year -47.85% +0.54% +13.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Desktop Virtualisation falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Desktop Virtualisation
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Desktop Virtualisation as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Desktop Virtualisation in England

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in England.

Daily rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in England

Desktop Virtualisation
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in England over the 6 months to 24 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Desktop Virtualisation in England

Desktop Virtualisation
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation in England.

Hourly rate trend for Desktop Virtualisation in England

Desktop Virtualisation
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Desktop Virtualisation within the England region over the 6 months to 24 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West - 7 £225 -
North of England - 7 £225 -
South West - 3 £600 -
London +83 2 £450 - 2
Desktop Virtualisation
UK

Desktop Virtualisation
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) IIS
1 1 (8.33%) Tomcat
1 1 (8.33%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
4 1 (8.33%) PaaS
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) Firewall
2 1 (8.33%) IPsec
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) NAS
2 1 (8.33%) S/MIME
2 1 (8.33%) SAN
2 1 (8.33%) SSL
2 1 (8.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (8.33%) Unified Communications
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) VoIP
2 1 (8.33%) VPN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
1 1 (8.33%) OpenID
1 1 (8.33%) SAML
1 1 (8.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (16.67%) NHS
3 1 (8.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 11 (91.67%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (8.33%) Windows 8
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (50.00%) ITIL
2 6 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Business Case
4 1 (8.33%) Decision-Making
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2
4 1 (8.33%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) PowerShell
2 3 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 12 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (91.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (41.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (25.00%) vSphere
5 1 (8.33%) Terminal Server
5 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) SCCM
2 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) Citrix
2 11 (91.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco
3 1 (8.33%) IBM
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle